FRENCH DEFEAT
REPORTED BY THAILAND COMMAND. ARMED TRANSPORT SHELLED & DAMAGED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright I (Received This Day, 11.20 a.m.) BANGKOK. December -I. The High Command lias issued a communique slating that Thailand anti-aircraft batteries scored several hits on an armoured French transport attempting to land troops on (he Thailand side of the Mekong River, near Nongkai, on Monday afternoon. The report says the transport attempted to escape, but stalled in midstream. Antiaircraft guns again fired on the vessel in the morning, causing an explosion. It is understood (hat many French soldiers aboard were killed or injured.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19401205.2.65
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 December 1940, Page 8
Word count
Tapeke kupu
96FRENCH DEFEAT Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 December 1940, Page 8
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in